Williams celebrates 20 years as a pro in 2015 and is as dominant as ever at an age when most tennis players have been put out to pasture. She captured her 20th Grand Slam title at the French Open, her third straight Slam title (she is 33-4 in Grand Slam finals during her career including 13-0 in doubles with sister Venus). Her $72 million in career prize money is double No. 2 on the list, Maria Sharapova. Williams can't match Sharapova's endorsements, but she has upper her off-court game over the last 12 months. Williams added deals with Chase and Audemars Piguet. She also expanded her Gatorade relationship to include the sports drink's parent PepsiCo. The company is using Williams in the relaunch of the Pepsi challenge. Williams owns a small stake in the NFL's Miami Dolphins. More »

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History could be coming our way this August, as Serena Williams looks to cap a terrific 2015 season with a complete sweep of all four Grand Slam events. A win at the 2015 U.S. Open would give Williams her first-ever calendar year Grand Slam and make her just the sixth-ever singles player to pull off read »

Serena Williams took home her twenty-first Grand Slam championship on Saturday, July 11, 2015 as she won Wimbledon, the most important tennis tournament in the world and one-fourth of the tournaments needed to achieve what is known as a Grand Slam in tennis.

Williams has now won the three Grand Slam tournaments taking place in 2015: the read »

The two biggest stars in women’s tennis face off Thursday in the semifinals of Wimbledon with a berth in Saturday’s final on the line. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova meet for the 20th time in their careers in what has been a one-sided rivalry with Williams winning 16 straight times. Sharapova beat Williams twice in 2004, including her read »

Human hair extensions are getting a helping hand from the same $4 billion venture capital firm famous for funding such Silicon Valley startups as Skype, Facebook and Twitter. On Friday, Mayvenn, an online seller of (yes) hair extensions, announced it had raised a $10 million series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Others participating in the read »

One of the most powerful backstories in sports comes from one of Southern California’s most challenged cities. The ultimate country club sport, tennis, has been dominated for the last decades by two African-American sisters who hail from a troubled town…and they credit that difficult upbringing with their drive, focus and success.

Floyd Mayweather has had a career full of monster paydays, with cumulative earnings of $420 million entering 2015. But Mayweather still craved the score of a lifetime. “Even from day one when I was with Bob Arum, I said I wanted to work extremely hard to get to a certain point in my career, which is to get to a point to be the first fighter to read »

It wasn’t quite as easy as it seemed like it would be, but Serena Williams defeated Lucy Safarova in three sets to win her 20th major championship. And maybe, secure GOAT status, as the game’s Greatest of All Time. Let’s do a thought experiment. What if Serena simply decided that enough was enough, and she hung up her racket right now, not read »

It has finally happened. A powerful group of leaders in international finance, the Group of Thirty, (G30) called last week for far-reaching banking reforms to restore public trust. It opened the door to dismissal if necessary of top executives in the banking sector, new approaches to hiring and stronger roles by boards of directors “to ensure read »

Anything can be marketed – especially political candidates. As the political season starts ramping up, we are witnessing the beginning of what is sure to be a fast-paced, rapid-fire, marketing competition play out. Day-by-day, almost any candidate can be on top of the leader board with polling numbers shifting drastically. Imagine marketing a read »

When Dan Price announced that he was raising the minimum salary in his company to $70,000, it made a lot of headlines. The story of the founder and CEO of the Seattle-based credit card processor Gravity Payments drastically cutting his own salary in order to raise the standard of living of even his lowest paid employees was written about just read »